6226…Ottawa Has A Legal Pot Storefront
Welcome your capital to the 21st century. My pot activist and Facebook buddy Russell Barth linked me to Reddit where they tell the world that the dispensary is at 790…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ethan Cox discusses how the Lac-Mégantic tragedy was a predictable – if not inevitable – outcome of a self-regulated (or un-regulated) rail system:…
July 10: What newspapers cannot do…
Last night, on Youtube, I watched some of the many videos of the fire and explosions in Lac Megantic. No amount of reading could prepare me for the horror of…
Students may reasonably rely on academic calendars
Ramdath v. George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology, 2013 ONCA 468 holds that students may reasonably rely on representations in an academic calendar. Such is significant because often…
Camino Wear: Clothing for Walking
Camino Wear is a clothing line that is focused on celebrating walking, travel, and adventure. The inspiration for the clothing line comes the founder’s walk along the Camino de Santiago.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 10, 2013: A licence to collect: Leon’s court ruling has national implications on privacy 7 People…
At the End of the Rainbow, a Movement to Divest?
Lovely picture on the front page of Le Devoir today: a little girl walking along the railway track in Lac Mégantic with a rainbow in the background. The symbolism is…
Giambrone rises for Scarborough by-election.
It was good for a bit of a belly laugh the other day watching the television news. It was about one of the upcoming provincial by-elections in Toronto. Lo and…
Confronting Climate Change/Ignoring Climate Change
Dr. Blair Feltmate, the program director of sustainability practice at University of Waterloo, says Canada needs to be prepared for extreme rainfall, which will occur more frequently with accelerating climate…
Howard Levitt’s ride
Fun tale about a fun guy. How do I know Howard’s fun? Last time I saw him, he was at an SFH show, selling our merch at the Bovine Sex…
Costs of hospital treatment falling
Ontario has the lowest hospital cost per weighted case of all the provinces. And the cost difference between Ontario and the rest of the country is growing. Hospital Cost Per…
On Board The Pequod
For me, there are two quintessential American novels. Huck Finn is about the American heart. Moby Dick is about the American soul. It is perhaps no accident, then, that Chris…
Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
I was hoping to get to this sooner but life intervened (and technology in the form of a sick computer), along with the second Egyptian revolution, which has been riveting,…
Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
I was hoping to get to this sooner but life intervened (and technology in the form of a sick computer), along with the second Egyptian revolution, which has been riveting,…
Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
I was hoping to get to this sooner but life intervened (and technology in the form of a sick computer), along with the second Egyptian revolution, which has been riveting,…
Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
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The History of Typography
In The Fridgularity, the emergent consciousness communicates to the protagonist (Blake Given) through text. Blake learns to read the mood of the consciousness (called Zathir) by pairing that emotional context…
On Environment Ministers And Petcoke
From Impolitical: CTV was reporting that Peter Kent may be moving on and therefore would be out as Environment Minister. Not sure there’s much a new Canadian minister might do…
Autonomy for Memorial University #nlpoli
One of the things about writing SRBP is that posts sometimes show changes in thinking as your humble e-scribbler gains more information. Over the last few posts and on Twitter,…